WRITING
NEWER BOOKS
O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology, Written with Am Johal (transcript, 2024)
Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Suburbs (Verso, 2024)
Big Moves (McGill-Queens, 2020) Written with Anthony Perl and Jeff Kenworthy
On This Patch of Grass: City Parks On Occupied Land. (Fernwood Press, Jan 2019) Written with Selena, Sadie and Daisy Couture with Denise Ferreira da Silva, Glen Coulthard and Erick Villagomez
Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (MIT Press, Feb. 2018) Written with Am Johal and Joe Sacco.
OLDER BOOKS
What a City is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement (MIT Press, 2016)
One Game at a Time (AK Press, 2013)
Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook for Youth (AK Press, 2013)
Common Ground in a Liquid City (AK Press, 2010)
Everywhere, All the Time (AK Press, 2008)
Watch Yourself (New Star, 2007)
Field Day (New Star, 2003)
CURRENT WRITING PROJECTS
My primary writing and research right now is considering borderlessness and mobilities through a close examination of two fortress cities in North Africa: Ceuta (Sebtah) and Melilla (Melilah).
More to come shortly.
SELECTED ESSAYS / STORIES
I publish a pretty steady stream of essays, commentaries, articles, fiction, stories and features in a wide variety of journals and magazines worldwide. Here are a few recent ones:
Here is a 2022 piece for Noema Magazine with Glen Coulthard about flags.
This is a 2021 article with Am Johal for Noema about wildfires and the possibilities of friendship with the other-than-human world.
Here is an October 2018 piece in The Guardian about global warming, wildfires and smugness
This is a January 2018 story in The Baffler called The Mountain of Everything Keeps On Giving about a mine and two little towns in the Yukon
This is a July 2017 piece in the ROAR issue 'The city rises'
In July 2017 I contributed to an on-line symposium on displacement sponsored by MIT's Displacement Research And Action Network (DRAN) called New Directions in Displacement Research
This is a very brief response to the 2017 BC election in Canadian Dimension.
This is me in the Georgia Straight assaulting the insidiously dangerous idea that 'foreigners' are responsible for Vancouver's housing crises: Part One and Part Two
Did the Olympics Make Vancouver a Better City? This was a ‘cover’ story for the Tyee.
Thicker Than Water: Matt Hern Unbottles the Fresh Water Future. This was a cover story for the Vancouver Review.
Ready to Rumble. This was a feature for Vancouver Magazine looking at the arrival of the UFC to our fair shores and how it challenges our scrubbed clean investor friendly city.
No Recipe for Funk: Matt Hern Asks How A City Gets Some Flavour was feature piece in The Vancouver Review: http://www.vancouverreview.com. The Globe and Mail Featured the article as its Read of the Week. Read the review. Read the first couple of pages.
The ‘Healing’ of Stanley Park and the Culture of Nature was published in three parts in Re: Place magazine.
SELECTED INTERVIEWS / MEDIA
This is profile and review of What a City is For titled 'East Vancouver Scholar Matt Hern Highlights Bigger Issues Underlying Gentrification'
Here's another review of What
An interview about What a City is For is here (tune in at 51:30)
An interview about the origins of Car Free Days: http://www.straight.com/news/923931/car-free-days-vancouver-fuelled-imaginative-rebels-cause
A talk about displacement at SCARP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWHpQGD8GOY
In conversation with Elizabeth Spavento about sports in Drain Magazine - here
A Feature about me in Vancouver Magazine:
Citizen Hern
A talk about cities with Rabble.ca
YouTube of me talking about Car-Free Vancouver Day
Two videos of me speaking at the AERO conference in Albany, NY:
aeroeducation.org
(2008 talk)